Portfolio Template Guide

This guide shows you how to turn the template into your own website and publish it. No coding skills needed: follow the steps one at a time. Baca dalam bahasa Indonesia.

1. What is in the package

To look at your website at any time, double-click index.html and it opens in your browser. After editing and saving, press Refresh in the browser to see the change.

2. Indonesian words in the code

UpVire is an Indonesian studio, so the names inside the code are Indonesian. You never need to rename them, and every setting has an English comment next to it. The words you will meet most:

Comments in the file are written in both languages, Indonesian first and English on the next line.

3. Getting ready: an app to edit with

index.html is a plain text file. You need an app that edits text as-is, not a word processor like Microsoft Word.

Recommended: Visual Studio Code (free)

Download it from code.visualstudio.com (Windows, Mac and Linux). Open the app, choose File → Open Folder, and pick the template folder. Click index.html in the list on the left to edit it.

Without installing anything

• Windows: right-click index.html → Open with → Notepad.
• Mac (TextEdit): open TextEdit → TextEdit → Settings (or Preferences) → Open and Save tab → tick "Display HTML files as HTML code instead of formatted text". Without this setting TextEdit damages the file when saving.

Finding text

Press Ctrl+F (Windows) or Cmd+F (Mac) in your editor and type a word you see on the website. The editor jumps straight to it. This is the fastest way to find anything you want to change.

4. Quick start

If you are in a hurry, work through this list. Each step is explained in full further down.

1. Unzip the file and double-click index.html to see the starting point.
2. Fill in your WhatsApp number, with country code, under PENGATURAN.
3. Choose the default language, and whether visitors can switch.
4. Replace the name and sample text with your own.
5. Put your photos in the foto folder and link them.
6. Replace the projects with your real work and adjust the filter categories.
7. Fill in your services and prices, and set your availability status.
8. Match the colours to your brand.
9. Go through the checklist, then upload to Netlify or your web host.

Allow about 1–2 hours if you are new to this, most of it spent preparing photos and writing your own text.

5. WhatsApp number

This is the most important step. Without a number, the "Tell me about your project" button and the project form do not work yet.

1. Open index.html and search for PENGATURAN (Indonesian for "settings"). It is near the bottom of the file.
2. Find this line:

   nomorWhatsApp: '',

3. Type your number between the two quote marks, starting with your country code:

   nomorWhatsApp: '+44 7700 900123',

   Spaces, dashes and the + are fine: only the digits are used.
4. Save, then refresh the browser. Click one of the WhatsApp buttons: WhatsApp opens with the message already typed.

While the number is empty, the buttons and form only show a reminder. This is on purpose, so no visitor messages a wrong number.

6. Replacing the text

Every name, number, story and project in this template is an example. The easiest way to replace them: search for the text you see on the website (for example Nadia) with Ctrl+F / Cmd+F, then replace it.

Must replace

Removing a section

Each section starts with a comment such as <!-- ── TESTIMONI / TESTIMONIALS ── -->. To remove it, delete from the <section below that comment to its matching </section>. Also remove its menu links (search for href="#testimoni").

7. Replacing the photos

The coloured boxes with an icon are photo placeholders. The template ships without photos on purpose: photos of your work and of yourself are far more convincing than stock images.

Steps

1. Save your photos in the foto folder. Use lowercase names without spaces, for example coffee-logo.jpg.
2. In index.html, find the photo box you want to replace. It looks like this:

   <div class="foto lebar">
       <svg ...>...</svg>
   </div>

3. Replace the whole <svg ...>...</svg> part with:

   <img src="foto/coffee-logo.jpg" alt="Short description of the photo" />

   Fill in alt with a short description. Google and screen readers use it.

The photo is cropped neatly to the shape of its box automatically.

Photo size

• About 1200–1600 pixels wide is plenty.
• Keep each photo under 300 KB so the site loads fast on phones. Compress for free at squoosh.app.
• Phone photos are usually 3–5 MB. Always compress them first.
• For projects, use landscape images (16:10) showing a mockup or the full piece. For yourself, a half-body portrait on a simple background.

8. Two languages

This template shows in Indonesian and English. Every text is written twice, side by side:

<span lang="id">Layanan</span><span lang="en">Services</span>

Only the active language is shown. Edit both whenever you change a text, and never change the lang="id" and lang="en" markers themselves.

Default language and the ID/EN switch

• The default language is set on the <html lang="id"> line at the top of the file. Change it to <html lang="en"> so new visitors see English first.
• The ID/EN switch in the navigation is controlled by tombolBahasa: true in PENGATURAN. A visitor's choice is remembered in their browser.
• Direct link: add ?lang=en (or ?lang=id) to the end of your address, e.g. yourbusiness.com/?lang=en, to open a specific language. Handy in proposals and social profiles.

English only?

This is the most common setup outside Indonesia:

1. Change the top line to <html lang="en">.
2. Set tombolBahasa: false in PENGATURAN. The switch disappears.
3. Edit only the lang="en" texts and the data-en... attributes. The Indonesian texts stay in the file but never show, so you can leave them as they are.

You can use any other second language the same way: write it in the lang="id" slots and relabel the switch button (the ID text inside id="pilih-bahasa").

Text inside attributes

Some text is not shown directly on the page, so its English version is an extra attribute starting with data-en:

The availability status also has two versions in PENGATURAN:

keteranganStatus: { id: 'slot Oktober tersisa 2', en: '2 slots left for October' },

9. Pages, look and dark theme

The menu at the top does not just scroll: each menu item opens its own page, with its own link and a smooth transition. It is still one index.html file, so everything you edit stays in one place.

How the pages are made

• Every link in the top menu, e.g. <a href="#karya">, becomes a page made of the section with that id.
• A section that is not in the menu joins the page before it. Everything before the first menu section is the Home page.
• The Home page lists every page as a card (Explore), and each page ends with a Next card. Both are made automatically from the menu and each section's <h2> heading.
• Each page has its own address, e.g. yourbusiness.com/#karya. Share it on social media or in a WhatsApp message to open that page directly.

Adding or removing a page

1. To add one: give a section an id (lowercase, no spaces) and add a link to it in the menu: <a href="#yourid">Name</a>.
2. To remove one: delete its link from the menu (the section then joins the page before it), or delete the section and its link.

One long page instead

Set halamanTerpisah: false in PENGATURAN. The menu then scrolls down one long page, as on a classic one-page website.

Light and dark theme

• The default theme is set on the first line of the page: <html lang="id" data-tema="otomatis">. Use otomatis to follow the visitor's phone or computer setting, terang for light, or gelap for dark.
• The sun/moon button lets visitors switch, and remembers their choice. Hide it with tombolTema: false in PENGATURAN; the page then always uses the default theme.
• Your colours (--utama) work in both themes. The dark theme’s colours are in the CSS block marked Tema gelap / Dark theme, near the end of the styles.

The glass look and the animations

The frosted-glass cards, the soft moving colour in the background and the animations are in the CSS block marked KACA (glass). You do not need to change anything there. Two values you may want to tweak, at the top of that block:

Visitors who turned on Reduce motion on their device get the same pages and themes without the animations.

10. Adding and managing your work

Each project is one <article class="karya"> block (karya = work), up to its </article>.

• Adding: copy one whole block, paste it below, and change the title, description and photo.
• Removing: delete one whole block.
• Project photo: replace the <svg> inside <div class="foto lebar"> with <img src="foto/name.jpg" alt="..." />.

Categories and filters

The filter buttons and the projects are linked by category name, which must match exactly:

<button type="button" data-filter="Logo" aria-pressed="false">Logo</button>
...
<article class="karya" data-kategori="Logo">

data-filter and data-kategori are keys: write them once, in any language. The label shown on the button and the project card is written in both languages, e.g. <span lang="id">Media sosial</span><span lang="en">Social media</span>.

New category: copy one filter button, change its data-filter and label, and give the matching projects the same data-kategori. No need for filters? Delete the whole <div class="filter">.

11. Services and prices

Each service is one <div class="layanan"> block: icon, name, description, three points and a starting price.

• Points: edit the <li> lines inside the <ul>. Add or remove lines as you like.
• Price: edit <b>US$250</b> in the English text, and the rupiah price next to it if you keep Indonesian.
• Adding a service: copy one whole block. Three cards look best on wide screens; two or four still show, just arranged a little differently.

12. Availability status

The badge in the hero is set in PENGATURAN:

menerimaProyek: true,
keteranganStatus: { id: 'slot Oktober tersisa 2', en: '2 slots left for October' }

• true shows a green dot "Taking new projects". false shows a red dot "Fully booked right now".
• keteranganStatus is the extra note after the dot, one per language. Leave it empty ('') if not needed.

Update it whenever your capacity changes. An honest status saves time for you and for potential clients.

13. Form, email and Instagram

The project form sends one WhatsApp message with the name, project type, budget and story, in the language the visitor is viewing. The project types and budgets are the <option> lines in each <select>; their English text is in data-en="...".

The two buttons under "Other ways" follow PENGATURAN:

email: '[email protected]',
instagram: 'nadia.desain',

• Write Instagram without @ and without a link: just the account name.
• Leave one empty ('') to hide its button.
• Change the opening sentence of the WhatsApp message in data-wa-form / data-en-wa-form on the <form> tag.

14. Changing the colours

Near the top of the file, find :root. Change these two lines to your brand colour (utama means primary, gelap means dark):

--utama: #4338ca;
--utama-gelap: #3730a3;

--utama-gelap is a slightly darker shade, used for gradients and hover states. Find colour codes with Google: color picker. Avoid very light colours for --utama, because white text on top of it becomes hard to read.

15. Publishing your website

Before publishing, go through the checklist below.

Option A: Netlify (free, easiest)

1. Create a free account at netlify.com.
2. Go to app.netlify.com/drop.
3. Drag the whole template folder (the one with index.html and the foto folder) onto the page.
4. Wait a few seconds. Your site is online at an address like random-name.netlify.app, which you can rename in the site settings.

To update the site later, drag the folder again onto that site's Deploys page in Netlify.

Option B: a web host with cPanel

1. Log in to cPanel → File Manager → open public_html.
2. Click Upload and upload index.html and the foto folder with its contents. (Or upload a ZIP, then right-click → Extract.)
3. Open your domain in the browser.

The guides and licence files do not need to be uploaded.

Option C: GitHub Pages (free)

Handy if you already have a GitHub account. Create a public repository, upload index.html and the foto folder, then under Settings → Pages choose the main branch and the / (root) folder.

Using your own domain

Buy a domain from any registrar (Namecheap, Cloudflare, Porkbun and many others). In Netlify, open the site settings → Domain management and follow the steps. With cPanel hosting, the domain is usually connected when you buy the plan.

16. How the link looks when shared

When your link is shared on WhatsApp, LinkedIn or other social media, the preview shows the title and description from og:title and og:description near the top of the file. Replace both. These two do not switch language, so write them in the language of your main market.

To show an image too, prepare a picture of about 1200 × 630 pixels, save it in the foto folder, and add this line right below og:description. The address must be complete, including your domain:

<meta property="og:image" content="https://yourdomain.com/foto/cover.jpg" />

17. Checklist before publishing

Open your website in the browser and check each item:

• The WhatsApp number is filled in with a country code, and the buttons open the right chat.
• No sample names, addresses, prices or numbers are left, in both languages (or the language switch is off).
• All photos show (no placeholder boxes left).
• Every project is your own work, or the client agreed to have it shown.
• Every category in the filter buttons has projects, and the spelling matches exactly.
• Prices and services match what you offer now, in both languages.
• The availability status is true right now (change it when you are fully booked).
• Your email and Instagram are correct, and you sent yourself one test message from the form.
• The browser tab title and og:title are replaced.
• Tested on a phone, not just a computer.
• Every button clicked at least once.

18. If something goes wrong

Want us to set it up?

If you'd rather not edit it yourself, there is a Website Setup Service (sold separately): we edit this template to your brief and put it online on Netlify's free plan, in an account in your name. Look for Website Setup Service in the UpVire shop where you bought this template (Gumroad, Etsy or Lynk.id).

Questions about your purchase or download can be sent through the product page on the platform where you bought it.